CN's western Canadian grain movements broke another record in October, with shipments of 2.8 million metric tons (MMT) of grain and processed grain products, the Class I announced yesterday.
The Canadian chemical industry is braced for a deepening of energy policies set out in Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's first term, kept in check by a minority government. “We anticipate a lot of continuity in terms of the industry,” Bob Masterson, president of the Chemistry Industry Association of Canada, told Petrochemical Update.
As U.S. plastics exports grow, suppliers are looking to diversify supply chain solutions and mitigate risk by creating options outside of Texas, where most of the product is made. A&R Logistics, a supply-chain-service provider for North American chemicals, announced on Oct. 17 the latest spending to add resin export capacity to the East Coast as an alternative to the Gulf area.
Cenovus Energy Inc. says it will add as much as 70,000 barrels per day of oilsands output following the Alberta government's decision to ease production curtailments for producers that add crude-by-rail capacity.
The sand deposits in North Dakota are getting a second look. They were checked about 10 years ago for usability with fracking and the industry decided against it.
Turkey’s minister of transport Mr Mehmet Cahit Turhan welcomed the arrival of the first container train to travel from China via Turkey to Europe in the Turkish capital Ankara on November 6.
Saudi Arabia posted a fiscal deficit of 32.1 billion riyals ($8.56 billion) in the third quarter this year, a big jump from the 7.3 billion riyals during the same period last year but 4% less than the previous quarter.
